Spain 0, Cabo Verde 0. The World Cup debutants walked into Atlanta as 30-to-1 longshots and walked out with the point of the tournament so far.
La Roja peppered the Cabo Verde goal with 27 shots, 7 on target, and could not put one past 40-year-old keeper Vozinha. Ferran Torres clanged the crossbar with Spain's cleanest look of the night, and Vozinha denied Oyarzabal, Laporte and Torres in a brilliant late first-half stretch. Cabo Verde defended in tight banks, soaked it up, and refused to break.
Cape Verde4-2-3-1
Spain4-3-3
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The story is Vozinha and the back four in front of him. Pico Lopes and Diney Borges threw their bodies in front of everything Spain conjured. Lamine Yamal, eased back from injury, started on the bench and could not change the picture when he came on. Pedri and Rodri dictated tempo, but the final ball never arrived. Luis de la Fuente called his players 'disappointed' with the second half, and that tracks — Spain had the chances, they just had no answer for the keeper.
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Markets had this as one of the most lopsided games of the group stage. Spain closed around 91% to win on Polymarket; Cabo Verde sat at roughly 3%. The draw was barely a thought. That's the whole point of this result — a price that screamed 'formality' caught a team that had clearly not read the screen. Books and prediction markets had the same read, and they were all on the wrong side of it.
The group picture got messier without changing the leader. Spain are still the chalk to win Group H at 61.5%, but Uruguay sit right behind them at 31.5% with a real path now that La Roja have coughed up 2 points. Cabo Verde's group-winner number is small, but it is no longer zero, and the round-of-16 math just opened up for everyone behind Spain.
Spain still have Uruguay and Saudi Arabia to navigate, and a draw in the opener means there is no more cruising — they need a result against Uruguay or the group race gets genuinely live. Cabo Verde get to play the rest of the group with house money and a goalkeeper in the best form of his life. For a federation of half a million people in its first World Cup, that point will travel.
Portugal1-0
Austria3-0
Uruguay1-0
Saudi Arabia4-0
Cape Verde0-0
Argentina2-3